UK Fournier ClubAffiliated with Club Fournier International
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE AIRCRAFT

People

Designers, pilots, restorers, writers and the owners who have kept the Fournier story alive.

Designer

René Fournier

The central figure: designer, pilot and the persistent advocate of light, efficient motorgliders. His design philosophy runs from RF1 to RF10.

Pilot · writer

Bernard Chabbert

A prominent Fournier pilot and aviation writer whose accounts help explain the character of the less familiar types, including the RF8.

Owner · writer

Bob Grimstead

A long-running Fournier owner and Pilot contributor whose RF4D, RF6B and touring stories form an important part of the modern record.

Community

Club Fournier International

The international Fournier community and its national chapters are an important source for historical registers, documents, photographs and rally information.

Preservation

The owners

The real archive is distributed among people with logbooks, photographs, build records and memories. This site is designed to bring those fragments together.

Your story

Add a name to the history

If an owner, builder, engineer, display pilot or restorer deserves a place here, tell the club what they contributed and where the supporting material can be found.

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